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Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Philosopher Immanuel Kant permitted himself only one pipe per day, but as years passed, his pipe bowls became much larger. Taking a bath with fancy bath salts once a week is a treat; taking that bath every day might make it a background activity of life. I can tear through all of the magazines in my stack, one right after the other, or I can dole t
... See moreGretchen Rubin • Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life
had come to understand health as discipline, discipline as punitive, and punitive as a concept that would send me down a rabbit
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
She put the sunscreen in her bag. A party favor, useful for later. Like her new sunglasses: she’d found a pair in a bowl on the living room table when she’d gone inside to pee, big tortoiseshells whose green lenses sharpened the world into shockingly precise detail.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
In the first pew, Beamer and Jenny couldn’t move. They had watched all this, as the understanding of what had really gone wrong in their lives revealed itself to them, which was that the tide pool you’re born into is only manageable if someone gives you swimming lessons. Or, put more simply, in order to be a normal person, you had to at least see n
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